February 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon have with all the details on another Knicks LOSS. The guys tell you why the concern for Wemby is HUGE. The Yankees getting rid of their facial hair mandate after 49 years. And the guys explain that Canada may have beat USA… But hockey won the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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is the way tire buying should be.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The buffet.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Uh to make Friday night from the face open for
what for another Knicks loss?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Oh, Jason, be carefullating the salad. We heard what happened
with Lettuce?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah yeah, Hey, Hey too soon for salad, Jason, Too
soon for Dustin May too soon? The guy missed all
season last year, but let us stuck in his esophagus.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
It's Lettuce.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Understand, Hey man, he's had enough time. He probably laughs
about it now. So I might hurt a little bit,
but he probably laughs.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I don't know. I would hope so, but you never
know about things like this. You know, how many times
do we say on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Too soon? Oh yeah, okay? Maybe well, but we all.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Grieve and go through the process and the different stages
in our own ways and at our own pace, and
how we deal with tragedy or triumph is going to
be very different person.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And that's one to get.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You know what though, Jason, Yeah, what he got. He
might have almost suffocated and heard his esophagus from Lettus, right,
did you.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Just look up the words suffocate and the I just like,
it's not like I think he might have suffocated his esophagus.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I had to look these words up and write it
down for okay, sorry, just say yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh, I'm sorry for you guys. I interrupted a joke
that you guys had. Oh I'm sorry. I've never had
that happen to me before, except like twelve times a night. Oh,
I'm sorry that I did that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lost, Go ahead with your joke, Go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was gonna say at least he has a leg
up over LeVar.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, come on, dude, stop with the no no no
no no no no you alone, no no no show,
no no no stop no stop.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That is not.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Walk away.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No no no stop no no. Not cool, not cool,
not cool, not cool.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Uh, we're just gonna move past that.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
In your lane, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Not cool man, not because.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
We're not going to see him a bunch next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We may not see him again after this, we may
not see him again. Not cool man.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
This is what happens when you wear big ballers.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What happens Larry WHOA not cool man? Not cool. You
know what we're gonna now after seeing that, we're just
moving on and we're going to talk about beards. We're
moving on. We're moving on, moving on. Uh. One of
the craziest stories today like.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This, This actually has a really big implication outside.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of the you know, you can laugh at it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The Yankees decided to do away with their long standing policy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Of no facial hair.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
For nearly fifty years, they had a whisker free policy
of if you want to come play for us, can't
have beards, can't do it right, can't do it now.
After forty nine years of doing it, the Yankee said today, well,
we're gonna change that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We're gonna low facial hair. We're going to.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Allow cleanly groomed beards if you can play on the team. Now,
they might call this a Devin Williams rule, because you know,
if he's gonna come over and give up big home
runs for them, he's gonna want to do it wearing
his signature close cut beard.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So the Yankees make this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Announcement that you can grow a quote a quote well
groomed beard like this is first of all, it's the
craziest rule in the world that George Steinbrenner instituted in
nineteen seventy six. And and you know he died fifteen
years ago and still his son, Hey, we're gonna keep
doing this, right, We're still gonna do the whole no
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facial air thing. And it's like what and they got
rid of it today. Right now, there's two sides to it. Hey,
good job, good doing it. And the flip side of
this was awful. This was draconian. I can't believe they
would do this, But I got something different for you.
The Yankees had to do this because they realize we're
not Yankees anymore, and they need to be more player friendly.
(05:03):
When Steinbrenner did this right, and we started the Yankees
in seventy six, Hey guess what who went to the
World Series in seventy six?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
New York Yankees who went.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
In seventy seven and seventy eight and one Yankees who
went again in eighty one and lost Yankees. Then you
had some lean years, many lean years, and then you
add the Yankee dynasty again. Jeter comes around RIVERA Pettitt,
Bernie Williams, and you know, nineteen ninety six happens, and
they win three out of four, and the Yankee dynasty
continues to win to get in two thousand and nine.
(05:32):
But now it's twenty twenty five, and this is a
direct result, I guarantee it of not getting Juan Soto
and understanding that we need to move past the ridiculous
old school philosophies and thoughts that we have and believes
we have because we're not the Yankees anymore. When the
Yankees were the only game in town when it came
to you were a Yankee because you wanted to be
(05:55):
a Yankee more than any other team in the country.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, you get bye with with stupid stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But now that everybody wants to be a Dodger, or
everybody wants to be a Met or Juan Soto wants
to be a Met over you, and you got to
share headlines with him for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, you know, we have to change things.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And the two biggest things the Yankees that we've talked
about that sounds stupid in the last few months had
been one. They wouldn't give Wan Soto a suite at
Yankee Stadium, Like that was part of the negotiation and
part of the reason why he chose the Mets, not
the reason, but the Yankee of the Mets said, you
want a suite at the stadium, Sure, we'll give it
to you and your family use it whenever you want.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, yeah, we got it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We had to go get somebody like that man, We
had to go get someone. And the Yankee say, oh no, no,
we didn't do it for Jeter, we didn't do it
for Judge. We'll give it to you at a discount rate,
Like how stupid is that. We'll give it to you
to a discount rate. That didn't play well, and Juan
Soto chose the Mets partly part of that. I don't
know how big of it was, but I'm sure it
was part of the reason. Hey, the Mets are treating
(06:56):
me right there, treating my family. Right, This is where
I should be for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I can win on the field and they treat me
right off the field. Okay, and now you have Hey,
we don't want to turn our back on players who
want to grow beards and have funky mustaches because we
have some kind of crazy rule. Because now the Yankees
look like they're not player friendly. And now plenty of
players can say, well, I think I can have a
(07:22):
pretty good baseball life in LA or with the with
the Mets, or with the Padres or here. I can
go to Detroit, I can go to Boston and do it.
I don't The Yankees aren't who they were, so they
needed to do this because they need to show, Hey, man,
don't worry, we're a destination. We're player friendly. Don't wor
you'll love playing here. You'll love all of us because
how many free agents you know here? Stuff like, well,
(07:44):
they do have the no beard rule. Well, I can't
sign that. That's stupid. Why would I want to go there? Oh,
they're not gonna give Sodo a suite, like they're gonna
they're gonna charge them less money for it, like they're
trying to sign the guy they want to say, it's
gonna be less money in a contract. Like the Yankees
are really player unfriendly, and they're trying to run with
a playbook that they've always had that's not equipped to
do it in twenty twenty five. And I guarantee you
(08:06):
no matter what they did to pivot, to go overspend
to sign free agents, because now the Yankees are like
the Mets used to be the Mets if they wanted
a free agent, Hey, what's your top offer? Four years
and eighty million, Well, we'll give you four years and
one hundred million. Well, I guess I gotta go to
the Mets because no one's giving me that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The Yankees now are doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Because we got to overpay because we watched a guy
come to us, lead us to the World Series and
then say no thanks, I think things are run better
and I can win better across town in another borough,
and that stings, and the Yankees needed to make a change.
And it's a great chant. Oh look, it's years overdue,
and it was stupid to begin with. But they needed
to do this, and I give them credit for it
(08:42):
because they understand, oh, we're not the Yankees anymore. We
need to make sure we're competitive, that we get free agents,
that free agents that come here want to stay here
and not come here for a year and go Yeah,
not my thing, man, I want to leave and go
someplace else, because that's damaging to our business. This at
least where you had the up ruar or of hey,
this is a stupid rule to begin with. Now at
least they got rid of it and they can go forward.
(09:04):
This is a big day because the Yankees understand we're
not who we used to be. We got to do
it a little bit differently and get with the times.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Did they start doing exit interviews and surveys when guys
would sign somewhere else? Like item fifty five is do
you like being a hare suit kind of guy?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
This is a important I heard a lot of Mets
talking there well, losing sodo to the story what made
this happen?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You did lose the back page of the fish wraps
for quite a while because of the Mets, and now
the Mets with the you know, Hey, here's my number
ninety two thousand dollars car.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So you know you got those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
John Soto ruling today, But for the Yankees, look adapter
die right, it's the old rule of thumb in this
like you gotta ask for the moon every player. What
can I get from my family? What kind of amenities
can I get? Can I get a private jet in
the off season that I get to go and travel
to wherever I w and how many people do I
get to go? And is it furnished with all the
(10:03):
liquor and food and I'm sorry all the water and
food that I need? Wait, very good, all of those things, right,
So as you go down the list, you know love
level of importance in this case, you know, you ask
for a sweep. That seems like a pretty easy ask,
whether you've done it for anybody or not. Times change,
people change, And maybe Derek you didn't give a damn
(10:25):
about that because he would have. However, many basket owners
fighting for occupancy at that time. All respect to he
and his wife and their kids and everything now, but
clearly the reputation there for Aaron Judge, maybe it didn't matter. Wait,
you're gonna give me how much money. Okay, we're good.
So that wasn't on the table. He wouldn't have thought
of it. And then for some agents it's it's like
(10:49):
concert riders. I mean you you love looking through that
kind of stuff as much as I do. All Right,
this guy needed a basket of brown m and ms. Well,
twenty years ago they didn't sell you brown and Eminem's.
You had to go and buy a bunch of bags
and have some poor schlubs sort through them. You can
(11:09):
do that for you now. You just order online or
whatever else. Right, you go to the eminem store. There's
a few of those. But the point being, you know,
it's a bunch of crazy asks and and some of
it's just the to make sure you're reading it right.
We were joking about contracts and Bradley Beal andres no
trade clause. I don't think they read that page. I
just think they thought it was boiler Blake moved on right.
(11:31):
Same thing here, we we get and do all these asks,
and then some of them are just to make sure
you're paying attention and that we can have an honest conversation,
because it shows you're you're a little more invested than
thinking it's just a slam dunk cursory exercise. In this
case for the Yankees, do they hire a sketch artist
so this or an AI sketch artist to say, all right,
(11:53):
this is what the acceptable beards. So you don't suddenly
start coming in looking like the guy for for vend
En stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh so you think they so you think it could
be like where they come in and there's a guy going, Okay,
this is this is what you're allowed to have, and
this is what you know.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
These are the types of mustaches. And I mean you
can't go looking like the cowardly lion James Headfield was
a few years ago. I mean, we need to keep
it clean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Did hell Steinbrady to parade around in his dad's marking today?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I don't know. All I keep thinking of is Larry David. Hey,
I'm wearing Luke Greg's pants. Maybe you don't think that
disease is contagious, right, I'm in Luke Grek's pants.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'm walking around and I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Wear pants, Gary.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They had Yankee pants. He wore pants.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
All of a sudden, Harmon's like wear pants.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Harmon's looking up going did Louke greg wear pants. He's
looking up.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I was trying to see how much a pair of
lou Garrick pants would sell for.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
How about that you would, dude?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I don't think you have to to buy a pair
of Luke Gregg's pants. I don't think any of us
have the money to buy Louke Greg's pants fitting them,
all of us pulling all our money together with all
the money Ty Shirt makes off for selling Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't think we have any.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
If we keep getting millions of views on hot takes,
we're good.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, that is true, that's true. Let me, Yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Don't even know about my lucrative foot picture industry have
really yeah, I knew, really well.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know yet.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay, Oh, it's like we do.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here we go hang On.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, So a recent sale of lou garrig New York
Yankee game pants hang On went for seventy three thousand dollars. Oh,
we could do that, seventy three thousand dollars. We could
of last year, seventy three grand Jason Boy, his waist,
(13:40):
His waist is really tiny, Luke Garry, I get my goodness,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I couldn't fit in the.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm not saying I want well, I mean you'd wear
them once? Yeah, No, I'd stretch the ass out.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow, what they do?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
They let the seed out?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Was this that the did Luke Gary let himself go
at some point during his career?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I just put the pants on and out.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I stretched him out of.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
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Speaker 3 (14:15):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yes, we'll get into that big Wemby story that Mike
mentioned a few minutes ago, and a fun conspiracy theory
that everyone can get behind.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
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Speaker 3 (15:11):
Jason Smith, Mike Harbon, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We had a big fun conspiracy theory coming your way
in a few minutes. But first, you know, look, yesterday
Mike and I filled in during the day for Doug
Gottlieb and Cavino and Rich and we were filling in
during the day. The big story broke that Victor weinbin
Yama was out for the year, and you know, it
was a big deal. Wemby with deep vein thrombosis in
his shoulder, which you know means big blood clot or
(15:36):
blood clots being treated with blood thinners, which means you
can't really have a lot of activity, can't play basketball.
So the Spurs, who you know, look, they're not going
anywhere this year. Okay, Wemby is gonna be the their superstar.
He's gonna be the best player of the league in
the next sometime of the next year or so.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, we're sitting you out.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And then we get the story there hopeful he'll be
ready for the next which you're talking about this is
coming back in September, So I get that he's going
to be out for a couple of months, but now
you're tomb he's not there in September, and it's a
big deal, and we talked about this and it really
blew up, you know, millions of views on the internet with.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
This the humble brag I just did right there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But it was really strange because I saw, you know,
there are doctors saying, oh, there's different things, and what
are you talking about here? And it was a really
it's a situation in which the thing for Wenby is yes,
you're hoping that he continues with his career. How it
was because this isn't an injury for him. This is
a you know, this is a medical condition, right, This
(16:39):
is not a you know, he broke his thumb.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know, he broke a toe, He's got a knee injury,
his elbow.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No, this is you know, deep pain from boats is
a big deal, and blood clots are a big deal.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know. Now my wife and I are over fifty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When we flew to the United Kingdom this past summer,
when I was like, I'm getting compression socks for all of.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Us, I ordered you the Jets ones. Okay, should you
get me the jets again?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I could.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I could wear them like stirrups. Now that'll that'll be great. Yeah,
I'll just wear boxers and those that sir, you have
to put pants on. Yeah, but you can't just see
my my Jets compression socks.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's stirrups. It looks great. You want to save times?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh stop, See what I want is the Mets ones
because it looks like stirrups from a game, like hey,
like I could be playing.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I got to see if they have a baseball license.
I certainly confirm the football one.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So you look.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So you know, blood clots being on a plane, it's
a thing. And one of the things for deep vein
thrombosis is if you are tall and if you fly
a lot. Well guess what does the NBA have people
who are tall and they fly all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So it's built in.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's a it's a hazard that's kind of built in
to Wemby's life and career now and I don't know
how you manage it. And the point you made yesterday
was just you know, it's it's now something you have
to manage the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It does he miss does he not play in as
many games?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Does he not fly across the country if you're talking
about hey, we're playing in New York and then or
flying back across the country, or playing in LA. Does
he miss that, Does he miss international games because of
long flights? Like this is something that's got to be
managed over the course of his career. Because Chris Bosch
had had a form of thrombosis too, and that cost
him his career at the end.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, granted, there's different thrombosis.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And if you have it in your leg, it's generally
more serious than it is if you have on your shoulder,
but it's still deep vein thrombosis which can which can
be really bad. And you know, you had brandon Ingram
on the other side of it, where he had it
a few years ago. And look, brand Ingers been able
to have a normal career. He was able to get
past it. It's done. He made all star teams and
got big contracts. So you know, there's both sides. There's
(18:37):
there's two ends of this, and hopefully Wenby you know,
falls on the side of of with brandon Ingram where
it's you know, he's able to come back and it's
not a big thing, but you know, this is a
this is like I said, it's a medical condition. And
when they said he might not be able to play,
they're hoping he's ready for the beginning of next season.
That's a big red flag, Like I I hope that
(18:57):
this is you know, this is something that you can
manage that that doesn't really affect it, because this could
be really really serious. Yeah, I mean the report we
got yesterday, and we'll see what comes through as they
do more testing and and get into the different therapies
and process for these. I mean it's a long, long build, right,
(19:19):
So the old under promise over delivers. So you put
a six.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Month on it saying hey, we need to start next year. Okay,
So that gets you to the end of October to
have a solution drawn up. Hopefully Physically, he's already responded,
so it becomes the non issue and we're just talking
about his stamina and getting himself ready for game shape.
But all of it to say, you know, you don't
know what the next process becomes. Right Medically, you mentioned
(19:48):
Bosh and you talk about a series of clots versus
an isolated clot in the shoulder, and we've had all
the internet doctors and everybody else chime in trying to
go through well, they haven't examined him, so we don't know.
But we go best case scenario as a guy who's
a supreme athlete and has taken care of himself as
(20:09):
far as we know to this point, so whatever caused it,
and trying to figure out injury and plays, you know
where he laid out on the ground, it's like, yeah,
it had to be right here because look at the
way he wins. It's like maybe maybe not, who knows,
But now it's about treatment. So certainly I've done a
bunch of reading, and you start going down the WebMD
(20:31):
rabbit hole and you find yourself into, you know, a
secure this loop of all right, well if then statements
and worst case scenarios, and at this point it's just
a wishing and hoping and you draw up a plan
worst case scenarios in terms of how quickly if he
can get back on the court. And as of now
it looks like, yeah, we're talking the beginning of next year.
(20:54):
And maybe it's a blip on the radar. We mentioned
brandon Ingram. He just signed a three year deal with
Toronto after getting traded one hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
He's fine.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
That was twenty nineteen, So that's the best of all outcomes.
So as we go through the other I just wanted
to make note Jaron Jackson, remember we mentioned him, Jared
Jackson Junior. If he wins Defensive Player of the Year,
suddenly he's available for the Supermax. So you want to
talk about profiting off of the other's misfortune, Smith, there's
a great sports example for you. But in all seriousness,
(21:26):
I mean, look, we wish him the best, and you know,
trying to educate ourselves as much as we can, try
to play doctors and lawyers here on the radio. A
lot of it is only time will tell how his
body responds to the treatment and what kind of plan
they come in place. I would love a Wenby Madden cruiser.
Oh they it's like a UK double decker bus, you
(21:49):
know what.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He does interviews in it with people and they post
him up. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be awesome. I'd
love to see that on the road.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
With Wenby and he hits a bunch of greasy spoons.
Yeah see, what are you doing? Go hang out with?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
No, he picks somebody different up on his drive like
he's driving. Hey, I'm Victor Webbin Yama. You know me
is Wemby Tomorrow. You know we uh you know here
we leave San Antonio tomorrow. We have a game in Houston.
So we're gonna ride down here and uh, you know,
pick somebody up and tie in, kind of have fun.
Oh look who's here. And then they pull up and
outside like his waiting like that, Fieri gets on the bus. Hey,
(22:24):
they're hanging out and having fun conversation. Fieri gets off
the bus, somebody else gets on that. There you go,
there's your show right there.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
There. Uh so again, best best thoughts to Wenby.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Hopefully things go well for him and that it is
something that, uh you know, he's able to get past.
But that's why it's a it's a it's a medical condition.
And now hopefully the new norm for him is not
too far away from what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do we know what condition is? Condition isn't?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right now, We just know that condition, what his condition is.
But then if you ask me again later on, I
might not know what kind.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Of condition is. Condition is? It changes changes?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Uh time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. So the guy who's been called
the Victor Webbin Yama of Fox Sports Radio, he's just
simply taller than everybody else.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's Steve de Sega, seven foot three thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
In the NBA game at San Antonio, Detroit won it's
fifth straight beating. The Spurs won twenty five one ten.
Kid Cunningham twenty five points. He had twelve assists seven
turnovers as well. Miami won in overtime at Toronto, ending
at four game losing streak, won twenty to one eleven.
Tyler Hero twenty eight points, Andrew Wiggins for the Heat
scored twenty five. Cleveland won at six in a row,
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ripping New York one forty two to one oh five.
The Cavs record forty six and ten Oklahoma City forty
five and ten after winning at Utah one thirty to
one oh seven, twenty one point lead at half for
OKAC at Dallas thirty five points for Kyrie Irving In
a win over New Orleans one eleven to one oh three.
Memphis edge Orlando one oh five one oh four. The
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Magic went scoreless for the last two and a half minutes.
Last second shot was blocked, so Paulo bencro in defeat.
He'd finished five of twenty one from the floor. Milwaukee
got nineteen points from Kyle Kuzma in a win at Washington,
his old team one o four one oh one. Damian
Lillard of Milwaukee was out due to hamstring injury management.
Washington's record nine and forty six. Houston beat Minnesota won
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twenty one one fifteen. Houston had scored forty eight points
in the first quarter Tonight. Rudy Gobert was out again
with a bad back for Minnesota. Anthony Edwards did play.
He'd had a sore hip of thirty seven points for
him thirteen of thirty two shooting from the floor at Houston.
Jalen Green thirty five points in this victory. Golden State
won at Sacramento. Each team had a record of twenty
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eight and twenty seven. Warriors take the game one thirty two,
one oh six despite thirty four points from DeMar DeRozan.
Two college basketball games on the men's side of note,
only a couple weeks left in the regular season. Fourteenth
ranked Michigan State won at number twelve Michigan seventy five
sixty two, on the day the Wolverines gave coach Dusty
May a new contract, but from in Michigan State a
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sixty six to sixty two lead with about four minutes
to go and then a nine to zero run to
end the game, so the Spartans are now leading the
Big Ten by half. Game over rival Michigan. At Villanova,
the Wildcats upset Number sixteen Marquette eighty one sixty six.
Villanova had lost seven of its last eleven games. The
NHL is off until the fourteen games. On Saturday, Yankees
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manager Aaron Boone signed his extension through twenty twenty seven.
The Yanks won their spring training opener four nothing over
Tampa Bay. New Orleans Saints have a new defensive coordinator,
Brandon Staley, who worked with new head coach Kellen Moore
a couple of years ago with the Chargers. Jacksonville's new
general manager is James Gladstone from the Rams. The Bears
cut tight end Gerald Everett. Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith had
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triceps surgery this week. He played through the injury in
the Super Bowl. The MLS regular season begins Saturday, and
Nebraska canceled its home and home football series with Tennessee,
which would have been played in twenty twenty six and
twenty seven. Nebraska you cited upcoming stadium renovations.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
The Jason Smith Show with My Best Friend Mike Carmon
Live the.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Tirec dot Com studios.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, how about a nice fun conspiracy theory we
can all get behind, right. I like that fun Friday
night conspiracy theory. So last night the Four Nations Championship, Canada,
United States, everything you could expect, right, well, except for
Canada winning and the United States deciding, oh, we're going
to leave the best player in the world open in
the slot in overtime. And it was born out today
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most watch hockey game in the history of ESPN, right outstanding.
It's a new era of hockey now and hockey will
be able to capitalize on this like they did in
nineteen eighty. There's a reason why we said it was
the biggest game of the last forty five years, and
it was last night. And it hit me in the
third period of this game watching and Sean McDonald said,
(26:50):
you know, it's an up and down game, and both
teams had chances.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The United States had a lot of big chances and
Canada had chances.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And if Gensel could have finished just once out of
the eight great shots he had, the United States probably
the one, but he couldn't. But okay, but it was
way more wide open than I thought it was going
to be. And and I'm saying to myself, this is
really weird. And Sean McDonald says, yeah, this game not
played nearly to the pace that I'm sure both head
coaches are happy with. And I thought about that, and
(27:19):
I said, I don't know about that because in the end,
as big a game as this was, right when it
was over, Canada beat the United States, But hockey won, right,
Hockey won. Hockey won last night easy. They were the
big winner. The sport was the big winner.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Oh huge, What was it a ten, ten to five
or eleven million or something like that peak and average
about nine and a half. That's pretty damn great.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It was crazy, right, it was. It was like what,
we've never seen a game like this? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And for ESPN plus, it was the highest rated non
football game that they've ever streamed. Like that's how many
people want. Like the top twenty topics on Twitter last
night were all about the game. It's not even the
super Bowl. You get the top twenty things are all
about the Super Bowl. Well, and they're actually a lot
about the game.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
And others are we really betting this fifty first state
versus annexation what are we doing.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Well, we're part of Canada. Mike Harmon how we lost.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So I'm watching them going, you know, I understand that,
but they know that this is the biggest stage, and
both teams know this is the biggest stage that hockey
has had, and everybody's gonna be watching it. It's gonna
be a game that's watched by more people than ever
watched a game. Maybe we let the game be a
little bit more wide open. I mean the coaches and
(28:35):
I mean Sullivan said, maybe we let the coaching maybe
let the game be more wide open, because we want
the game to be on display. We don't want it
to be a big Hey, it's a lot of defense,
and we're stifling a lot of chances because when you're
trying to grab the average viewer or the fan to
get them hockey crazy, the last thing you want is
a game where hey, Noody can get a good shot.
(28:56):
Because the talent level of the players is so good
and the United States defense was fantastic, but they played
much more wide open than I thought they would, when
clearly the strategy would be, Hey, we're gonna play a
little bit closer. We're not gonna give up these chances
up and down the ice, and you know, you know,
both goalies were great. Hella Book was great, Bennington was
even better last night. The saving made on Kuchuk in
overtime was just amazing. But I wonder if that was
(29:19):
kind of a tacit unspoken agreement of we know hockey
needs to be the star of this game, so yeah,
we're gonna let it be a little more wide open
than we thought it was. And if they if it
was just a game to win a championship, Hey, you
know what we're gonna we're doing. We're doing things differently, right,
We're not gonna play as wide open. We're gonna be
a counter attack because the United States is more counter attack.
(29:40):
This is how we're gonna do it. This is how
we won last week. This is how we're gonna do
it now. But because of that, but because it was, hey,
we need to put on a show. We don't want
people in a third period going I would turn the
game off, but I just want to see who wins. Right,
that's the last thing you want. You don't want that
at all. You want people who saying, oh my god,
I can't get enough of this. I can't wait for overtime.
So yeah, I wonder if that was a little bit
more of a hey, we're gonna let it be a
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little bit more wide open so we can everybody can
see the best players in the world on this stage
and doing their thing and let the chips fall where
they may. I would not be surprised if that was
some kind of unspoken thing between the size we're okay
with letting this be as wide open.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
As it is.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, I think with McDavid and his post was kind
of alluding to the UL it's an exhibition. But boy,
that feels good, you know, that kind of thing of
you know, the style of game and knowing the interest
in it overall, right, not trying to dismiss it, but
in the same vein talking ahead to the Olympics next
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year and just knowing how many eyeballs and how much
ink had been slung on this talking heads across radio
and television that normally wouldn't touch hockey. It's one of
the things we love about the show and the window
that we were blessed to have is a lot of
it happens in front of us. So we're watching a
lot of these games and players and then we get
to the playoff. That's the whole other thing. So yeah,
(31:01):
you're you're trying to lean into it. I can buy
this conspiracy. Normally your conspiracy is I go, yeah, okay,
I don't know where your head is on this. I
like that you got there and I'll have what you're having.
But it's the this one I think really holds some
weight of we needed to open it up. The fact
that your best player in the game is standing by
himself going.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Ball ball ball felt you know, every now and then
you got to pass it to that guy. Oh, I
can never win the Cup or a big games, so
you know, just give him a chance.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I mean, that's the thing, McDavid.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
If you said to the average the average NHL fan, right,
the average NHL fan, not the average sports that it
doesn't know, Hey, how long has Connor McDavid been in
the NHL, you would they would say, I don't know, five, five,
six years. This is tenth year in the league. Like, yeah,
he's only twenty eight because he came up when he
was thirteen years old. But I mean he's just he's
he's been in the league ten years now, McDavid, like,
(31:55):
and he still feels like he's up and coming in there,
and but he's been in the league at decade.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, we do this all the time, though, we age
ourselves and know we forget and you look except for
Lebron and Rogers.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Once you hit past like.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Thirty five, we start using that as the way to
introduce you.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Thirty seven year old quarterback Matthew.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Stafford, here's he going to be a ram and twenty
five forty year old Aaron Rodgers facing big life choice
and challenges. Right, Tom Brady forty five year old Tom Brady. No,
until then you get to kind of just go about
unless you got a big contract and then local news
will pick up on it. For the rest of us,
we wait until they're older, because then we celebrate them
(32:36):
because we don't feel quite so old.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But yeah, it's already been a decade. It's it's absurd exit.
How about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmonli from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Oh you want to feel old? You want you want
to Yeah, okay, you want to feel old?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Story coming up next from today in the world of
sport is gonna make you feel really old.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
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Fox Sports Radio.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live the Tirack dot Com Studios. And you know we
mentioned this earlier in the show, but this just show
you how weird a week this has been in sports,
is that the commissioner and all the commissioners were in
the of the big four sports were in the news
this week, and without a doubt, the commissioner that had
(33:38):
the best week was Gary Bettman. And I don't know
that you have ever been able to say that that
Gary Bettman had a better week than all of the
other commissioners, right, better week than Roger Goodell, clearly better
week than Rob Manford. Who's got to sit here tonight
and go, hey, yeah, we just lost a five hundred
and fifty million dollars a deal next year with the ESPN,
(33:58):
and a way better week than out of Silver who
people want to blame him and kick him out of
being commissioner because the All Star Game sucked.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Next week, this is.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yet better, much better. We yeah, absolute, But we're talking commissioners.
We're staking with commissioners like Gary Bettman. I don't know
if he can raise a banner or some kind in
his office in New York. But I don't know that
that's ever happened where I could say the NHL commissioner
had a better week than any other commissioner of any
of the major sports, like never.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Only when we're at the end of a Stanley Cup
final and he breathes that sigh of relief that the
season went through, we crowned a champion. He's never called
it a hunk medal. Check all those boxes. That's all
fine and good, but you're absolutely right. It was waiting
for the record scratch moment or the but look, the
Rob Manford thing. The Dodgers side is a difficult conversation
(34:49):
because they're gonna have to have, you know, the the
powwows with all the the owners, and they'll fight about that.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
The TV thing.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I think that's one of those Stuart Smalley moments. He's
looking in the mirror, going you're good enough, you're smart enough.
I don't know that you're saying people like you, But
you're you're doing that. I'm gonna go puff myself up
because this is gonna be good. It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be good. I'm not gonna look like ESPN
dumped me. I'm gonna win the breakup.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Now you're ready to feel old? Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
You're ready to feel old? See you build me up.
You got me to laugh. I got you doing a
spit take. And here what do we got?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Alright? On the next one, I the which we just won.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We just won last night. Okay, we lost tonight, we
won last night.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It's fine.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I feel old.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
So I'm older than I was last night, that's for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Forty five years ago today, little game called Miracle on
Ice where the United States beat Russia four to three
instill what is the biggest sports strictly sporting event of
my lifetime?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Forty five years ago?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Forty five and and you know, as you get older,
and I think back to this event, and I still
remember watching it in my basement when I was ten
years old, and how nervous I was, and and things
that I didn't understand at the time, like wow, he's
pulling the best goalie in the taking off pulling the
best goalie in the world.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, well why not right? Oh Mark Johnson scored with
one second left in the period.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh my god, Like all this great and Eruzione's goal,
But of all the time that that I get back,
I think, how frozen in time all of these players are, right.
I still when I think Mike Eruzione, I think of
what he looked like in nineteen eighty and clearly when
Miracle came out, and I've seen that movie a million times.
You know they're frozen in that mund because it's all
(36:37):
the young kids and then you see them now, Like
I watch Rob McClanahan do an interview going into last
night's game.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Oh my god, that's Rob.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Rob McClanahan is like almost seventy Like it's it's it's
insane to think that. Like I remember, he's the guy
that Herb Brooks was yelling at outside the locker room
during the game against Sweden the first night of the Olympics,
and here he is, like glass is an odd Like
that's Rob. Oh my god, that's Rob McClanahan. Like to
be frozen in time like that as a as an athlete,
(37:06):
like even after forty five years.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's how they are.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
And I watched Eruzi only last night come out in
the Johnny Gudrou Johnny hockey jersey, which was crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
What you want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, oh that was so cool.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Now I saw a couple of folks, right, It's like,
not often you get Gretzky one up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, hey it's Wayne Gretzky. Who's not
Oh yeah, it's States has Rizzo. Okay, here come. Only
goalie scored the Olympics, never, never scored the NHL. Only
goalie scored. Now it made a whole career off a
one goal. Just amazing, unbelievable. And you know, and funny way,
you know, forty five years ago to make it. To
(37:43):
tell you a fun story about this about the movie
is that today the Yankees relaxed.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Their facial hair rule. Y you know, now you can
have a beard. Yankees had a rule in place for
fifty years couldn't have facial hair.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Herb Brooks, coach of the Olympic team, had a facial
hair thing. And he didn't want to let anymo out.
But Ken Morrow, who was a defenseman, I mean he
went to the Islanders, was a big story like he
was a really good player for a long time, Ken Morrow,
and he was like, the Islanders had him and he
had a beard, and it was well, wait a minute,
what are you gonna do? And and Brooks came up
with a way to get around it because he wanted
(38:19):
him on the team and Morrow was such a good kid.
He said, well, if you had a beard before you
came to the team, before we tried, you were allowed
to keep it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, right. I always
thought that was something that was just.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
In my head.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
And then years later I was friends with the guy
for Why I had talked to me a long time
and his brother was one of the writers of Miracle,
And when the movie was getting ready to come out
and we were out at dinner one night, we're talking
about it. He goes, oh, man, I should have had
my brother call you, because you know, I know, you know.
I said, yeah, yeah, we're talking about different things. And
I said, yeah, you know, the Ken Morrow thing is
really fun. I always thought he was what's that? And
I tell him the story and he looks at me
(38:53):
and he goes, ooh, I don't know that they know that.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I was like, oh, Okay, hey, you could have got me.
I could have been on I could have been on
the movie there, that's gonna be good. I could have
helped you out there.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, I thought you were going to say it was
like a face off situation to be honest, though, like
they'd gone into full makeup and.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Faces like Travolta Nicholas. Yeah no, that no, it's.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
But that that's where the gold is right, going going
into the deep dives of how these events come together
and relaxing of rules.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I mean, the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I can't wait for all the guys to say, oh,
I was going to sign there, but I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah no, no, no, no, I was going to but
now no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Well now that it's out there, I mean, let's just talk.
Let's go down to brass tacks.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
So you feel old now?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Oh hell yeah, you feel old?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah no, that's it's nice that it follows one day later,
so it's an all hockey. Yeah, feel good? And Gary
Bettman is your week's MVP.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, like, hey, you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
You couldn't play the game tonight on the forty fifth
out of her You couldn't play tonight?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
You can wait one night and play it.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You know they had gotten the same ratings on a
Friday of the calendar. Ooh probably not.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, okay, all right, take.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
The victory lap and move on. Don't don't overthink.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
HL point for the NHL. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Uh from Mike gm Jason. Coming up next, it's Chris Plank.
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
The buffet.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Uh to make Friday night from the face open for
what for another Knicks loss?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Oh, Jason, be carefullating the salad. We heard what happened
with Lettuce?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah yeah, Hey, Hey too soon for salad, Jason, Too
soon for Dustin May too soon? The guy missed all
season last year, but let us stuck in his esophagus.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
It's Lettuce.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I know, I.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Understand, Hey man, he's had enough time. He probably laughs
about it now. So I might hurt a little bit,
but he probably laughs.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I don't know. I would hope so, but you never
know about things like this. You know, how many times
do we say on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Too soon? Oh yeah, okay? Maybe well, but we all.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Grieve and go through the process and the different stages
in our own ways and at our own pace, and
how we deal with tragedy or triumph is going to
be very different person.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And that's one to get.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You know what though, Jason, Yeah, what he got. He
might have almost suffocated and heard his esophagus from Lettus, right,
did you.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Just look up the words suffocate and the I just like,
it's not like I think he might have suffocated his esophagus.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I had to look these words up and write it
down for okay, sorry, just say yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh, I'm sorry for you guys. I interrupted a joke
that you guys had. Oh I'm sorry. I've never had
that happen to me before, except like twelve times a night. Oh,
I'm sorry that I did that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lost, Go ahead with your joke, Go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was gonna say at least he has a leg
up over LeVar.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, come on, dude, stop with the no no no
no no no no you alone, no no no show,
no no no stop no stop.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That is not.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Walk away.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No no no stop no no. Not cool, not cool,
not cool, not cool.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Uh, we're just gonna move past that.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
In your lane, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Not cool man, not because.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
We're not going to see him a bunch next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We may not see him again after this, we may
not see him again. Not cool man.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
This is what happens when you wear big ballers.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What happens Larry WHOA not cool man? Not cool. You
know what we're gonna now after seeing that, we're just
moving on and we're going to talk about beards. We're
moving on. We're moving on, moving on. Uh. One of
the craziest stories today like.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This, This actually has a really big implication outside.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of the you know, you can laugh at it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
The Yankees decided to do away with their long standing policy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Of no facial hair.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
For nearly fifty years, they had a whisker free policy
of if you want to come play for us, can't
have beards, can't do it right, can't do it now.
After forty nine years of doing it, the Yankee said today, well,
we're gonna change that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We're gonna low facial hair. We're going to.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Allow cleanly groomed beards if you can play on the team. Now,
they might call this a Devin Williams rule, because you know,
if he's gonna come over and give up big home
runs for them, he's gonna want to do it wearing
his signature close cut beard.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So the Yankees make this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Announcement that you can grow a quote a quote well
groomed beard like this is first of all, it's the
craziest rule in the world that George Steinbrenner instituted in
nineteen seventy six. And and you know he died fifteen
years ago and still his son, Hey, we're gonna keep
doing this, right, We're still gonna do the whole no
(04:40):
facial air thing. And it's like what and they got
rid of it today. Right now, there's two sides to it. Hey,
good job, good doing it. And the flip side of
this was awful. This was draconian. I can't believe they
would do this, But I got something different for you.
The Yankees had to do this because they realize we're
not Yankees anymore, and they need to be more player friendly.
(05:03):
When Steinbrenner did this right, and we started the Yankees
in seventy six, Hey guess what who went to the
World Series in seventy six?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
New York Yankees who went.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
In seventy seven and seventy eight and one Yankees who
went again in eighty one and lost Yankees. Then you
had some lean years, many lean years, and then you
add the Yankee dynasty again. Jeter comes around RIVERA Pettitt,
Bernie Williams, and you know, nineteen ninety six happens, and
they win three out of four, and the Yankee dynasty
continues to win to get in two thousand and nine.
(05:32):
But now it's twenty twenty five, and this is a
direct result, I guarantee it of not getting Juan Soto
and understanding that we need to move past the ridiculous
old school philosophies and thoughts that we have and believes
we have because we're not the Yankees anymore. When the
Yankees were the only game in town when it came
to you were a Yankee because you wanted to be
(05:55):
a Yankee more than any other team in the country.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, you get bye with with stupid stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But now that everybody wants to be a Dodger, or
everybody wants to be a Met or Juan Soto wants
to be a Met over you, and you got to
share headlines with him for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, you know, we have to change things.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And the two biggest things the Yankees that we've talked
about that sounds stupid in the last few months had
been one. They wouldn't give Wan Soto a suite at
Yankee Stadium, Like that was part of the negotiation and
part of the reason why he chose the Mets, not
the reason, but the Yankee of the Mets said, you
want a suite at the stadium, Sure, we'll give it
to you and your family use it whenever you want.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, yeah, we got it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We had to go get somebody like that man, We
had to go get someone. And the Yankee say, oh no, no,
we didn't do it for Jeter, we didn't do it
for Judge. We'll give it to you at a discount rate,
Like how stupid is that. We'll give it to you
to a discount rate. That didn't play well, and Juan
Soto chose the Mets partly part of that. I don't
know how big of it was, but I'm sure it
was part of the reason. Hey, the Mets are treating
(06:56):
me right there, treating my family. Right, This is where
I should be for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I can win on the field and they treat me
right off the field. Okay, and now you have Hey,
we don't want to turn our back on players who
want to grow beards and have funky mustaches because we
have some kind of crazy rule. Because now the Yankees
look like they're not player friendly. And now plenty of
players can say, well, I think I can have a
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pretty good baseball life in LA or with the with
the Mets, or with the Padres or here. I can
go to Detroit, I can go to Boston and do it.
I don't The Yankees aren't who they were, so they
needed to do this because they need to show, Hey, man,
don't worry, we're a destination. We're player friendly. Don't wor
you'll love playing here. You'll love all of us because
how many free agents you know here? Stuff like, well,
(07:44):
they do have the no beard rule. Well, I can't
sign that. That's stupid. Why would I want to go there? Oh,
they're not gonna give Sodo a suite, like they're gonna
they're gonna charge them less money for it, like they're
trying to sign the guy they want to say, it's
gonna be less money in a contract. Like the Yankees
are really player unfriendly, and they're trying to run with
a playbook that they've always had that's not equipped to
do it in twenty twenty five. And I guarantee you
(08:06):
no matter what they did to pivot, to go overspend
to sign free agents, because now the Yankees are like
the Mets used to be the Mets if they wanted
a free agent, Hey, what's your top offer? Four years
and eighty million, Well, we'll give you four years and
one hundred million. Well, I guess I gotta go to
the Mets because no one's giving me that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The Yankees now are doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Because we got to overpay because we watched a guy
come to us, lead us to the World Series and
then say no thanks, I think things are run better
and I can win better across town in another borough,
and that stings, and the Yankees needed to make a change.
And it's a great chant. Oh look, it's years overdue,
and it was stupid to begin with. But they needed
to do this, and I give them credit for it
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because they understand, oh, we're not the Yankees anymore. We
need to make sure we're competitive, that we get free agents,
that free agents that come here want to stay here
and not come here for a year and go Yeah,
not my thing, man, I want to leave and go
someplace else, because that's damaging to our business. This at
least where you had the up ruar or of hey,
this is a stupid rule to begin with. Now at
least they got rid of it and they can go forward.
(09:04):
This is a big day because the Yankees understand we're
not who we used to be. We got to do
it a little bit differently and get with the times.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Did they start doing exit interviews and surveys when guys
would sign somewhere else? Like item fifty five is do
you like being a hare suit kind of guy?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
This is a important I heard a lot of Mets
talking there well, losing sodo to the story what made
this happen?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You did lose the back page of the fish wraps
for quite a while because of the Mets, and now
the Mets with the you know, Hey, here's my number
ninety two thousand dollars car.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So you know you got those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
John Soto ruling today, But for the Yankees, look adapter
die right, it's the old rule of thumb in this
like you gotta ask for the moon every player. What
can I get from my family? What kind of amenities
can I get? Can I get a private jet in
the off season that I get to go and travel
to wherever I w and how many people do I
get to go? And is it furnished with all the
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liquor and food and I'm sorry all the water and
food that I need? Wait, very good, all of those things, right,
So as you go down the list, you know love
level of importance in this case, you know, you ask
for a sweep. That seems like a pretty easy ask,
whether you've done it for anybody or not. Times change,
people change, And maybe Derek you didn't give a damn
(10:25):
about that because he would have. However, many basket owners
fighting for occupancy at that time. All respect to he
and his wife and their kids and everything now, but
clearly the reputation there for Aaron Judge, maybe it didn't matter. Wait,
you're gonna give me how much money. Okay, we're good.
So that wasn't on the table. He wouldn't have thought
of it. And then for some agents it's it's like
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concert riders. I mean you you love looking through that
kind of stuff as much as I do. All Right,
this guy needed a basket of brown m and ms. Well,
twenty years ago they didn't sell you brown and Eminem's.
You had to go and buy a bunch of bags
and have some poor schlubs sort through them. You can
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do that for you now. You just order online or
whatever else. Right, you go to the eminem store. There's
a few of those. But the point being, you know,
it's a bunch of crazy asks and and some of
it's just the to make sure you're reading it right.
We were joking about contracts and Bradley Beal andres no
trade clause. I don't think they read that page. I
just think they thought it was boiler Blake moved on right.
(11:31):
Same thing here, we we get and do all these asks,
and then some of them are just to make sure
you're paying attention and that we can have an honest conversation,
because it shows you're you're a little more invested than
thinking it's just a slam dunk cursory exercise. In this
case for the Yankees, do they hire a sketch artist
so this or an AI sketch artist to say, all right,
(11:53):
this is what the acceptable beards. So you don't suddenly
start coming in looking like the guy for for vend
En stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh so you think they so you think it could
be like where they come in and there's a guy going, Okay,
this is this is what you're allowed to have, and
this is what you know.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
These are the types of mustaches. And I mean you
can't go looking like the cowardly lion James Headfield was
a few years ago. I mean, we need to keep
it clean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Did hell Steinbrady to parade around in his dad's marking today?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I don't know. All I keep thinking of is Larry David. Hey,
I'm wearing Luke Greg's pants. Maybe you don't think that
disease is contagious, right, I'm in Luke Grek's pants.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I'm walking around and I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Wear pants, Gary.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They had Yankee pants. He wore pants.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
All of a sudden, Harmon's like wear pants.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Harmon's looking up going did Louke greg wear pants. He's
looking up.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I was trying to see how much a pair of
lou Garrick pants would sell for.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
How about that you would, dude?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I don't think you have to to buy a pair
of Luke Gregg's pants. I don't think any of us
have the money to buy Louke Greg's pants fitting them,
all of us pulling all our money together with all
the money Ty Shirt makes off for selling Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't think we have any.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
If we keep getting millions of views on hot takes,
we're good.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well, that is true, that's true. Let me, Yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Don't even know about my lucrative foot picture industry have
really yeah, I knew, really well.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know yet.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay, Oh, it's like we do.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Here we go hang On.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, So a recent sale of lou garrig New York
Yankee game pants hang On went for seventy three thousand dollars. Oh,
we could do that, seventy three thousand dollars. We could
of last year, seventy three grand Jason Boy, his waist,
(13:40):
His waist is really tiny, Luke Garry, I get my goodness,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I couldn't fit in the.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm not saying I want well, I mean you'd wear
them once? Yeah, No, I'd stretch the ass out.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow, what they do?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
They let the seed out?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Was this that the did Luke Gary let himself go
at some point during his career?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I just put the pants on and out.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I stretched him out of.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
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Speaker 3 (14:15):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yes, we'll get into that big Wemby story that Mike
mentioned a few minutes ago, and a fun conspiracy theory
that everyone can get behind.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with My Heart Say
It Again, The.
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Jason Smith Show a.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
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Speaker 3 (15:11):
Jason Smith, Mike Harbon, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We had a big fun conspiracy theory coming your way
in a few minutes. But first, you know, look, yesterday
Mike and I filled in during the day for Doug
Gottlieb and Cavino and Rich and we were filling in
during the day. The big story broke that Victor weinbin
Yama was out for the year, and you know, it
was a big deal. Wemby with deep vein thrombosis in
his shoulder, which you know means big blood clot or
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blood clots being treated with blood thinners, which means you
can't really have a lot of activity, can't play basketball.
So the Spurs, who you know, look, they're not going
anywhere this year. Okay, Wemby is gonna be the their superstar.
He's gonna be the best player of the league in
the next sometime of the next year or so.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, we're sitting you out.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And then we get the story there hopeful he'll be
ready for the next which you're talking about this is
coming back in September, So I get that he's going
to be out for a couple of months, but now
you're tomb he's not there in September, and it's a
big deal, and we talked about this and it really
blew up, you know, millions of views on the internet with.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
This the humble brag I just did right there.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But it was really strange because I saw, you know,
there are doctors saying, oh, there's different things, and what
are you talking about here? And it was a really
it's a situation in which the thing for Wenby is yes,
you're hoping that he continues with his career. How it
was because this isn't an injury for him. This is
a you know, this is a medical condition, right, This
(16:39):
is not a you know, he broke his thumb.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know, he broke a toe, He's got a knee injury,
his elbow.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
No, this is you know, deep pain from boats is
a big deal, and blood clots are a big deal.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know. Now my wife and I are over fifty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
When we flew to the United Kingdom this past summer,
when I was like, I'm getting compression socks for all of.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Us, I ordered you the Jets ones. Okay, should you
get me the jets again?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I could.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I could wear them like stirrups. Now that'll that'll be great. Yeah,
I'll just wear boxers and those that sir, you have
to put pants on. Yeah, but you can't just see
my my Jets compression socks.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
There's stirrups. It looks great. You want to save times?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh stop, See what I want is the Mets ones
because it looks like stirrups from a game, like hey,
like I could be playing.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I got to see if they have a baseball license.
I certainly confirm the football one.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
So you look.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So you know, blood clots being on a plane, it's
a thing. And one of the things for deep vein
thrombosis is if you are tall and if you fly
a lot. Well guess what does the NBA have people
who are tall and they fly all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So it's built in.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's a it's a hazard that's kind of built in
to Wemby's life and career now and I don't know
how you manage it. And the point you made yesterday
was just you know, it's it's now something you have
to manage the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It does he miss does he not play in as
many games?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Does he not fly across the country if you're talking
about hey, we're playing in New York and then or
flying back across the country, or playing in LA. Does
he miss that, Does he miss international games because of
long flights? Like this is something that's got to be
managed over the course of his career. Because Chris Bosch
had had a form of thrombosis too, and that cost
him his career at the end.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, granted, there's different thrombosis.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And if you have it in your leg, it's generally
more serious than it is if you have on your shoulder,
but it's still deep vein thrombosis which can which can
be really bad. And you know, you had brandon Ingram
on the other side of it, where he had it
a few years ago. And look, brand Ingers been able
to have a normal career. He was able to get
past it. It's done. He made all star teams and
got big contracts. So you know, there's both sides. There's
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there's two ends of this, and hopefully Wenby you know,
falls on the side of of with brandon Ingram where
it's you know, he's able to come back and it's
not a big thing, but you know, this is a
this is like I said, it's a medical condition. And
when they said he might not be able to play,
they're hoping he's ready for the beginning of next season.
That's a big red flag, Like I I hope that
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this is you know, this is something that you can
manage that that doesn't really affect it, because this could
be really really serious. Yeah, I mean the report we
got yesterday, and we'll see what comes through as they
do more testing and and get into the different therapies
and process for these. I mean it's a long, long build, right,
(19:19):
So the old under promise over delivers. So you put
a six.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Month on it saying hey, we need to start next year. Okay,
So that gets you to the end of October to
have a solution drawn up. Hopefully Physically, he's already responded,
so it becomes the non issue and we're just talking
about his stamina and getting himself ready for game shape.
But all of it to say, you know, you don't
know what the next process becomes. Right Medically, you mentioned
(19:48):
Bosh and you talk about a series of clots versus
an isolated clot in the shoulder, and we've had all
the internet doctors and everybody else chime in trying to
go through well, they haven't examined him, so we don't know.
But we go best case scenario as a guy who's
a supreme athlete and has taken care of himself as
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far as we know to this point, so whatever caused it,
and trying to figure out injury and plays, you know
where he laid out on the ground, it's like, yeah,
it had to be right here because look at the
way he wins. It's like maybe maybe not, who knows,
But now it's about treatment. So certainly I've done a
bunch of reading, and you start going down the WebMD
(20:31):
rabbit hole and you find yourself into, you know, a
secure this loop of all right, well if then statements
and worst case scenarios, and at this point it's just
a wishing and hoping and you draw up a plan
worst case scenarios in terms of how quickly if he
can get back on the court. And as of now
it looks like, yeah, we're talking the beginning of next year.
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And maybe it's a blip on the radar. We mentioned
brandon Ingram. He just signed a three year deal with
Toronto after getting traded one hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
He's fine.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
That was twenty nineteen, So that's the best of all outcomes.
So as we go through the other I just wanted
to make note Jaron Jackson, remember we mentioned him, Jared
Jackson Junior. If he wins Defensive Player of the Year,
suddenly he's available for the Supermax. So you want to
talk about profiting off of the other's misfortune, Smith, there's
a great sports example for you. But in all seriousness,
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I mean, look, we wish him the best, and you know,
trying to educate ourselves as much as we can, try
to play doctors and lawyers here on the radio. A
lot of it is only time will tell how his
body responds to the treatment and what kind of plan
they come in place. I would love a Wenby Madden cruiser.
Oh they it's like a UK double decker bus, you
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know what.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He does interviews in it with people and they post
him up. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be awesome. I'd
love to see that on the road.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
With Wenby and he hits a bunch of greasy spoons.
Yeah see, what are you doing? Go hang out with?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
No, he picks somebody different up on his drive like
he's driving. Hey, I'm Victor Webbin Yama. You know me
is Wemby Tomorrow. You know we uh you know here
we leave San Antonio tomorrow. We have a game in Houston.
So we're gonna ride down here and uh, you know,
pick somebody up and tie in, kind of have fun.
Oh look who's here. And then they pull up and
outside like his waiting like that, Fieri gets on the bus. Hey,
(22:24):
they're hanging out and having fun conversation. Fieri gets off
the bus, somebody else gets on that. There you go,
there's your show right there.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
There. Uh so again, best best thoughts to Wenby.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Hopefully things go well for him and that it is
something that, uh you know, he's able to get past.
But that's why it's a it's a it's a medical condition.
And now hopefully the new norm for him is not
too far away from what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do we know what condition is? Condition isn't?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right now, We just know that condition, what his condition is.
But then if you ask me again later on, I
might not know what kind.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Of condition is. Condition is? It changes changes?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Uh time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. So the guy who's been called
the Victor Webbin Yama of Fox Sports Radio, he's just
simply taller than everybody else.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's Steve de Sega, seven foot three thank you.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
In the NBA game at San Antonio, Detroit won it's
fifth straight beating. The Spurs won twenty five one ten.
Kid Cunningham twenty five points. He had twelve assists seven
turnovers as well. Miami won in overtime at Toronto, ending
at four game losing streak, won twenty to one eleven.
Tyler Hero twenty eight points, Andrew Wiggins for the Heat
scored twenty five. Cleveland won at six in a row,
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ripping New York one forty two to one oh five.
The Cavs record forty six and ten Oklahoma City forty
five and ten after winning at Utah one thirty to
one oh seven, twenty one point lead at half for
OKAC at Dallas thirty five points for Kyrie Irving In
a win over New Orleans one eleven to one oh three.
Memphis edge Orlando one oh five one oh four. The
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Magic went scoreless for the last two and a half minutes.
Last second shot was blocked, so Paulo bencro in defeat.
He'd finished five of twenty one from the floor. Milwaukee
got nineteen points from Kyle Kuzma in a win at Washington,
his old team one o four one oh one. Damian
Lillard of Milwaukee was out due to hamstring injury management.
Washington's record nine and forty six. Houston beat Minnesota won
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twenty one one fifteen. Houston had scored forty eight points
in the first quarter Tonight. Rudy Gobert was out again
with a bad back for Minnesota. Anthony Edwards did play.
He'd had a sore hip of thirty seven points for
him thirteen of thirty two shooting from the floor at Houston.
Jalen Green thirty five points in this victory. Golden State
won at Sacramento. Each team had a record of twenty
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eight and twenty seven. Warriors take the game one thirty two,
one oh six despite thirty four points from DeMar DeRozan.
Two college basketball games on the men's side of note,
only a couple weeks left in the regular season. Fourteenth
ranked Michigan State won at number twelve Michigan seventy five
sixty two, on the day the Wolverines gave coach Dusty
May a new contract, but from in Michigan State a
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sixty six to sixty two lead with about four minutes
to go and then a nine to zero run to
end the game, so the Spartans are now leading the
Big Ten by half. Game over rival Michigan. At Villanova,
the Wildcats upset Number sixteen Marquette eighty one sixty six.
Villanova had lost seven of its last eleven games. The
NHL is off until the fourteen games. On Saturday, Yankees
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manager Aaron Boone signed his extension through twenty twenty seven.
The Yanks won their spring training opener four nothing over
Tampa Bay. New Orleans Saints have a new defensive coordinator,
Brandon Staley, who worked with new head coach Kellen Moore
a couple of years ago with the Chargers. Jacksonville's new
general manager is James Gladstone from the Rams. The Bears
cut tight end Gerald Everett. Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith had
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triceps surgery this week. He played through the injury in
the Super Bowl. The MLS regular season begins Saturday, and
Nebraska canceled its home and home football series with Tennessee,
which would have been played in twenty twenty six and
twenty seven. Nebraska you cited upcoming stadium renovations.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Back to you. Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
The Jason Smith Show with My Best Friend Mike Carmon
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Tirec dot Com studios.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, how about a nice fun conspiracy theory we
can all get behind, right. I like that fun Friday
night conspiracy theory. So last night the Four Nations Championship, Canada,
United States, everything you could expect, right, well, except for
Canada winning and the United States deciding, oh, we're going
to leave the best player in the world open in
the slot in overtime. And it was born out today
(26:29):
most watch hockey game in the history of ESPN, right outstanding.
It's a new era of hockey now and hockey will
be able to capitalize on this like they did in
nineteen eighty. There's a reason why we said it was
the biggest game of the last forty five years, and
it was last night. And it hit me in the
third period of this game watching and Sean McDonald said,
(26:50):
you know, it's an up and down game, and both
teams had chances.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The United States had a lot of big chances and
Canada had chances.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And if Gensel could have finished just once out of
the eight great shots he had, the United States probably
the one, but he couldn't. But okay, but it was
way more wide open than I thought it was going
to be. And and I'm saying to myself, this is
really weird. And Sean McDonald says, yeah, this game not
played nearly to the pace that I'm sure both head
coaches are happy with. And I thought about that, and
(27:19):
I said, I don't know about that because in the end,
as big a game as this was, right when it
was over, Canada beat the United States, But hockey won, right,
Hockey won. Hockey won last night easy. They were the
big winner. The sport was the big winner.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Oh huge, What was it a ten, ten to five
or eleven million or something like that peak and average
about nine and a half. That's pretty damn great.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It was crazy, right, it was. It was like what,
we've never seen a game like this? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
And for ESPN plus, it was the highest rated non
football game that they've ever streamed. Like that's how many
people want. Like the top twenty topics on Twitter last
night were all about the game. It's not even the
super Bowl. You get the top twenty things are all
about the Super Bowl. Well, and they're actually a lot
about the game.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
And others are we really betting this fifty first state
versus annexation what are we doing.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Well, we're part of Canada. Mike Harmon how we lost.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So I'm watching them going, you know, I understand that,
but they know that this is the biggest stage, and
both teams know this is the biggest stage that hockey
has had, and everybody's gonna be watching it. It's gonna
be a game that's watched by more people than ever
watched a game. Maybe we let the game be a
little bit more wide open. I mean the coaches and
(28:35):
I mean Sullivan said, maybe we let the coaching maybe
let the game be more wide open, because we want
the game to be on display. We don't want it
to be a big Hey, it's a lot of defense,
and we're stifling a lot of chances because when you're
trying to grab the average viewer or the fan to
get them hockey crazy, the last thing you want is
a game where hey, Noody can get a good shot.
(28:56):
Because the talent level of the players is so good
and the United States defense was fantastic, but they played
much more wide open than I thought they would, when
clearly the strategy would be, Hey, we're gonna play a
little bit closer. We're not gonna give up these chances
up and down the ice, and you know, you know,
both goalies were great. Hella Book was great, Bennington was
even better last night. The saving made on Kuchuk in
overtime was just amazing. But I wonder if that was
(29:19):
kind of a tacit unspoken agreement of we know hockey
needs to be the star of this game, so yeah,
we're gonna let it be a little more wide open
than we thought it was. And if they if it
was just a game to win a championship, Hey, you
know what we're gonna we're doing. We're doing things differently, right,
We're not gonna play as wide open. We're gonna be
a counter attack because the United States is more counter attack.
(29:40):
This is how we're gonna do it. This is how
we won last week. This is how we're gonna do
it now. But because of that, but because it was, hey,
we need to put on a show. We don't want
people in a third period going I would turn the
game off, but I just want to see who wins. Right,
that's the last thing you want. You don't want that
at all. You want people who saying, oh my god,
I can't get enough of this. I can't wait for overtime.
So yeah, I wonder if that was a little bit
more of a hey, we're gonna let it be a
(30:02):
little bit more wide open so we can everybody can
see the best players in the world on this stage
and doing their thing and let the chips fall where
they may. I would not be surprised if that was
some kind of unspoken thing between the size we're okay
with letting this be as wide open.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
As it is.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, I think with McDavid and his post was kind
of alluding to the UL it's an exhibition. But boy,
that feels good, you know, that kind of thing of
you know, the style of game and knowing the interest
in it overall, right, not trying to dismiss it, but
in the same vein talking ahead to the Olympics next
(30:39):
year and just knowing how many eyeballs and how much
ink had been slung on this talking heads across radio
and television that normally wouldn't touch hockey. It's one of
the things we love about the show and the window
that we were blessed to have is a lot of
it happens in front of us. So we're watching a
lot of these games and players and then we get
to the playoff. That's the whole other thing. So yeah,
(31:01):
you're you're trying to lean into it. I can buy
this conspiracy. Normally your conspiracy is I go, yeah, okay,
I don't know where your head is on this. I
like that you got there and I'll have what you're having.
But it's the this one I think really holds some
weight of we needed to open it up. The fact
that your best player in the game is standing by
himself going.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Ball ball ball felt you know, every now and then
you got to pass it to that guy. Oh, I
can never win the Cup or a big games, so
you know, just give him a chance.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I mean, that's the thing, McDavid.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
If you said to the average the average NHL fan, right,
the average NHL fan, not the average sports that it
doesn't know, Hey, how long has Connor McDavid been in
the NHL, you would they would say, I don't know, five, five,
six years. This is tenth year in the league. Like, yeah,
he's only twenty eight because he came up when he
was thirteen years old. But I mean he's just he's
he's been in the league ten years now, McDavid, like,
(31:55):
and he still feels like he's up and coming in there,
and but he's been in the league at decade.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, we do this all the time, though, we age
ourselves and know we forget and you look except for
Lebron and Rogers.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Once you hit past like.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Thirty five, we start using that as the way to
introduce you.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Thirty seven year old quarterback Matthew.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Stafford, here's he going to be a ram and twenty
five forty year old Aaron Rodgers facing big life choice
and challenges. Right, Tom Brady forty five year old Tom Brady. No,
until then you get to kind of just go about
unless you got a big contract and then local news
will pick up on it. For the rest of us,
we wait until they're older, because then we celebrate them
(32:36):
because we don't feel quite so old.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
But yeah, it's already been a decade. It's it's absurd exit.
How about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (32:52):
I got a.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Story coming up next from today in the world of
sport is gonna make you feel really old.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
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Speaker 2 (33:05):
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Speaker 3 (33:14):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live the Tirack dot Com Studios. And you know we
mentioned this earlier in the show, but this just show
you how weird a week this has been in sports,
is that the commissioner and all the commissioners were in
the of the big four sports were in the news
this week, and without a doubt, the commissioner that had
(33:38):
the best week was Gary Bettman. And I don't know
that you have ever been able to say that that
Gary Bettman had a better week than all of the
other commissioners, right, better week than Roger Goodell, clearly better
week than Rob Manford. Who's got to sit here tonight
and go, hey, yeah, we just lost a five hundred
and fifty million dollars a deal next year with the ESPN,
(33:58):
and a way better week than out of Silver who
people want to blame him and kick him out of
being commissioner because the All Star Game sucked.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Next week, this is.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yet better, much better. We yeah, absolute, But we're talking commissioners.
We're staking with commissioners like Gary Bettman. I don't know
if he can raise a banner or some kind in
his office in New York. But I don't know that
that's ever happened where I could say the NHL commissioner
had a better week than any other commissioner of any
of the major sports, like never.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Only when we're at the end of a Stanley Cup
final and he breathes that sigh of relief that the
season went through, we crowned a champion. He's never called
it a hunk medal. Check all those boxes. That's all
fine and good, but you're absolutely right. It was waiting
for the record scratch moment or the but look, the
Rob Manford thing. The Dodgers side is a difficult conversation
(34:49):
because they're gonna have to have, you know, the the
powwows with all the the owners, and they'll fight about that.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
The TV thing.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I think that's one of those Stuart Smalley moments. He's
looking in the mirror, going you're good enough, you're smart enough.
I don't know that you're saying people like you, But
you're you're doing that. I'm gonna go puff myself up
because this is gonna be good. It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be good. I'm not gonna look like ESPN
dumped me. I'm gonna win the breakup.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Now you're ready to feel old? Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
You're ready to feel old? See you build me up.
You got me to laugh. I got you doing a
spit take. And here what do we got?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Alright? On the next one, I the which we just won.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
We just won last night. Okay, we lost tonight, we
won last night.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It's fine.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I feel old.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
So I'm older than I was last night, that's for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Forty five years ago today, little game called Miracle on
Ice where the United States beat Russia four to three
instill what is the biggest sports strictly sporting event of
my lifetime?
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Forty five years ago?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Forty five and and you know, as you get older,
and I think back to this event, and I still
remember watching it in my basement when I was ten
years old, and how nervous I was, and and things
that I didn't understand at the time, like wow, he's
pulling the best goalie in the taking off pulling the
best goalie in the world.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, well why not right? Oh Mark Johnson scored with
one second left in the period.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Oh my god, Like all this great and Eruzione's goal,
But of all the time that that I get back,
I think, how frozen in time all of these players are, right.
I still when I think Mike Eruzione, I think of
what he looked like in nineteen eighty and clearly when
Miracle came out, and I've seen that movie a million times.
You know they're frozen in that mund because it's all
(36:37):
the young kids and then you see them now, Like
I watch Rob McClanahan do an interview going into last
night's game.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Oh my god, that's Rob.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Rob McClanahan is like almost seventy Like it's it's it's
insane to think that. Like I remember, he's the guy
that Herb Brooks was yelling at outside the locker room
during the game against Sweden the first night of the Olympics,
and here he is, like glass is an odd Like
that's Rob. Oh my god, that's Rob McClanahan. Like to
be frozen in time like that as a as an athlete,
(37:06):
like even after forty five years.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's how they are.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
And I watched Eruzi only last night come out in
the Johnny Gudrou Johnny hockey jersey, which was crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
What you want to talk about?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, oh that was so cool.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Now I saw a couple of folks, right, It's like,
not often you get Gretzky one up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, hey it's Wayne Gretzky. Who's not
Oh yeah, it's States has Rizzo. Okay, here come. Only
goalie scored the Olympics, never, never scored the NHL. Only
goalie scored. Now it made a whole career off a
one goal. Just amazing, unbelievable. And you know, and funny way,
you know, forty five years ago to make it. To
(37:43):
tell you a fun story about this about the movie
is that today the Yankees relaxed.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Their facial hair rule. Y you know, now you can
have a beard. Yankees had a rule in place for
fifty years couldn't have facial hair.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Herb Brooks, coach of the Olympic team, had a facial
hair thing. And he didn't want to let anymo out.
But Ken Morrow, who was a defenseman, I mean he
went to the Islanders, was a big story like he
was a really good player for a long time, Ken Morrow,
and he was like, the Islanders had him and he
had a beard, and it was well, wait a minute,
what are you gonna do? And and Brooks came up
with a way to get around it because he wanted
(38:19):
him on the team and Morrow was such a good kid.
He said, well, if you had a beard before you
came to the team, before we tried, you were allowed
to keep it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, right. I always
thought that was something that was just.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
In my head.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
And then years later I was friends with the guy
for Why I had talked to me a long time
and his brother was one of the writers of Miracle,
And when the movie was getting ready to come out
and we were out at dinner one night, we're talking
about it. He goes, oh, man, I should have had
my brother call you, because you know, I know, you know.
I said, yeah, yeah, we're talking about different things. And
I said, yeah, you know, the Ken Morrow thing is
really fun. I always thought he was what's that? And
I tell him the story and he looks at me
(38:53):
and he goes, ooh, I don't know that they know that.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I was like, oh, Okay, hey, you could have got me.
I could have been on I could have been on
the movie there, that's gonna be good. I could have
helped you out there.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, I thought you were going to say it was
like a face off situation to be honest, though, like
they'd gone into full makeup and.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Faces like Travolta Nicholas. Yeah no, that no, it's.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
But that that's where the gold is right, going going
into the deep dives of how these events come together
and relaxing of rules.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I mean, the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
I can't wait for all the guys to say, oh,
I was going to sign there, but I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah no, no, no, no, I was going to but
now no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Well now that it's out there, I mean, let's just talk.
Let's go down to brass tacks.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
So you feel old now?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Oh hell yeah, you feel old?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah no, that's it's nice that it follows one day later,
so it's an all hockey. Yeah, feel good? And Gary
Bettman is your week's MVP.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah, like, hey, you couldn't.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
You couldn't play the game tonight on the forty fifth
out of her You couldn't play tonight?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
You can wait one night and play it.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
You know they had gotten the same ratings on a
Friday of the calendar. Ooh probably not.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, okay, all right, take.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
The victory lap and move on. Don't don't overthink.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
HL point for the NHL. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Uh from Mike gm Jason. Coming up next, it's Chris Plank.
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